Ebbsfleet Design Group builds on our pioneering three-year creative placemaking programme This Must Be The Place to continue our work collaborating with local young people on the development of the new Ebbsfleet Garden City, supported by artists, academics and designers.
For the 24/25 programme researcher Rana Khazbak and interdisciplinary design studio RESOLVE Collective led a series of sessions, including a one week lab, with young people aged 15-21 living in or near Ebbsfleet. These explorative workshops asked the group to consider creative and novel ways of responding to their environment, and facilitated them becoming ‘community researchers’ — working to re-imagine the built environment as it’s being developed in Ebbsfleet.
“A primary goal of RESOLVE’s is to work in ways that value and celebrate local knowledge. Co-creating with young people as community designers and researchers is an integral part of how design can speak to power; radically affecting the environments in which they often have the largest stake but the most suppressed voice.” — RESOLVE Collective
As part of this exploration, the Design Group met over the course of three ‘labs’ in the October half term, the February half term, and April Easter holidays. Sessions were free to attend, with refreshments and travel costs provided.
Listen to our podcast episode Notes From The Field 003: RESOLVE Collective to dig deeper and head to Ebbsfleet Design Group — Reciprocal Space to learn about the 25/26 programme.
Ebbsfleet Design Group is delivered in partnership with the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation.
